The freeware programs are a set of useful CD-R applications for MSDOS. They support every major CDROM recorder on the market and are continually updated to support the same recorders as our commercial disc-at-once software. These programs are offered to the Internet community at no charge. They may be freely distributed (unmodified) for non-commercial purposes. Since these programs are free, no technical support is available from Golden Hawk Technology.

NOTE: The freeware programs are included with the rest of the DOS programs on the download page.

Program Descriptions

CD2CD.EXE

This program will copy a single-track data CD from any of the supported CDROM drives directly to a CD recorder. The reader must be faster than the recorder (i.e. 4X reader when recording at 2X, or a 2X reader when recording at 1X).

CD2FILE.EXE and FILE2CD.EXE

CD2FILE will copy a CD from any of the supported CDROM drives to an "image file" on your harddrive. This file can then be used by FILE2CD to write the image back to a CD recorder. These two programs will allow someone who doesn't have an extra CDROM drive to make copies of CDs using only their CD recorder for both reading the source disc and writing the new disc. FILE2CD can also be used to make ISO9660 discs if you already have a program than can build an ISO image file.

DISK2CD.EXE

DISK2CD copies a SCSI harddrive block-by-block to the CD recorder. This program can be used to make native VMS and Unix CDs. NOTE: The harddrive must be smaller than the capacity of a CDROM (650Mb).

CDTOOLS.EXE

This program performs a number of useful CDROM functions including "Disc Finalization", "Erase CD-RW Disc", "Table of Contents", etc. This program replaces some earlier freeware programs including FINALIZE.EXE and TOC.EXE.

NOTES:

• These programs will only copy single-track data CDs (with CDROM Mode-1 type sectors). They will not copy audio, CDROM-XA, CD-I, mixed-mode, or any type of multi-session disc. If you do not know how many tracks are on a CD, use the program CDTOOLS.EXE to display the table-of-contents.
• You can display the command line switches for any of the programs by typing "program-name /?". There must be at least one space between each command line switch or argument.
• All programs that write to the recorder have a /TEST option that will put the recorder into "write emulation" mode. Please make use of this switch when you are trying these programs for the first time or are copying a disc that might have a format that these programs don't support.